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Salt Creek

Traditional

Style
Bluegrass
Tradition
Bluegrass (older reel 'Salt River')
Form
Breakdown
Key
A
Level
3
Played on
Fiddle

In the public domain. Source

Music

90bpm

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History

The Kessinger Brothers of West Virginia recorded it in 1929 as "Salt River." Bill Monroe recorded it in 1963 with Bill Keith on banjo and called it "Salt Creek."

Why the name changed is told several ways. Alan Jabbour thought Monroe named it after a creek near his Bean Blossom festival grounds in Indiana and learned it from banjo player Don Stover. Another account says the label wanted a title that couldn't be confused with Monroe's "Big Sandy River."

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